Agnieszka Brzeżańska (born 1972) currently lives in Warsaw. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, in Warsaw, and at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Her work explores elusive links between various natural forces and life forms on Earth, which she perceives as Gaia, a living organism. In this, she uses various registers of knowledge, from physics and philosophy to systems of cognition marginalized by modern science, such as alchemy, parapsychology, esotericism, native knowledge or matriarchal traditions. She is also interested in contemporary ecological practices. She is an author of paintings, drawings, films, photographs and ceramics. In 2024 Agnieszka Brzeżanska was awarded the Annual Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Visual Arts category.
Works at the collections:
Museum of Art, Łódź
ING Polish Art Foundation
Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
NOMUS, Gdańsk
RISD Museum, Rhode Island

SELECTED WORKS

Exhibitions

SOLO

2024
- On herbs, trees and lichen, Museum of Pharmacy, Warsaw
- Permeation, MOS, Gorzów Wlkp. (with Judith Hamann)

2023
- Spells and Ancestors, Willa Polonia, Busko Zdrój
- Ancestors, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw

2022
-Ceremoniał, Nowy Złoty, Wrocław

2021
-So Remember The Liquid Ground, East-contemporary, Milan

2019
- World National Park, Królikarnia The National Museum, Warsaw

2018
- The National Park All Over The Earth, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk

2016
- Matrix-Sratrix, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw

2015
- MA TERRA, Gallery Vera Munro, Hamburg

- This All Occurs Quickly, With Ease, Grace and Joy, Marlborough Contemporary, London, cat.

- MA TERRA, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw

2014
- MA TERRA, Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw

- Kobayashi Maru, Nanzuka, Tokyo

2013
- I love you. Be good, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2012
- A Painting Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Roma

- Back to the Garden, Galerie Kamm, Berlin

2011
- Sound Waves, Light Waves, Dance Waves, Clifton Benevento, New York

- 852 Hz, Benevento, Los Angeles

2010
- Cosmic Equation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel

- Galactic Resonance, Hotel, London Playlist, DAAD Galerie, Berlin

2009

- Two days, three nights, Agnieszka Brzeżanska / Renata Kaminska, Bel Etage, Berlin

- 528 Hz, Karma International, Zurich

- Venus Conjunct, Galerie Kamm, Berlin

2008

- A Small Presentation of a Few Video Works and Some Really Old Works With a Nude, a Horse and the Moon, Karma International, Zurich

- LISTE The Young Art Fair, Basel

- The Exhibition, Puławska 25a, Warsaw

2007

- L’Artiste, Le Modėle et La Peinture, BROADWAY 1602, New York

- Rencontres d'Arles Photo Festival, Arles

2006

- Tunnel Like a Tail, Hotel, London

- Warsaw for Amateurs, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw

- Inversely to inversely and inversely again, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2005

- Is nothing not enough?, Broadway 1602, New York

- Dharma TV, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck

- Free Doom, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2004

- Agnieszka Brzeżańska / Svetlana Heger, AP4, Geneve

2003

- Agnieszka Brzeżańska and Janos Fodor, Platan Gallery, Budapest

2002

- Double happiness, CCA Ujazdowski Castle / Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, cat.

1997

- Sprzyjającym jest przekroczyć wielką wodę, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

GROUP

2024
- HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK, Wien
- Adhesion, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
- Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska and HUNITI GOLDOX: On Water, Flow and Warped Time, Vleeshal, Middelburg
- Vistula Biennale, Warsaw

2023

- Ceremoniał, Art Walk Gallery, Warsaw

- Udomowienie, Miejska Gallery,  Busko-Zdrój

- Herbalistki, Dom Norymberski Gallery, Cracow

- Przewrót, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń

- Nadzieja Radykalna, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok

- Podróż do wnętrza Ziemi, BWA Wrocław Główny, Wrocław

- Duby Smalone, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok

- Powiadacze średniowiecza, Medieval Art Gallery, National Museum, Poznań

2022

- Ceremoniał, Nowy Złoty, Wrocław

- Callart, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocłąw

- Ślady siostrzeństwa, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw

- Vistula, Re-Creation, Museum of the City of Kraków, Cracow

- Emma Kunz Cosmos, Tabakalera, San Sebastian

- Refugees Welcome. Artists for Refugees, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach

2021

- Thicket, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

- Poczęcie, Prześwit Gallery, Warsaw

- Konteksty, Postartistic Congress, Sokołowsko

- Collection in Action, NOMUS, Gdańsk

- Shadows Conceal The Earth, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw

- Emergency Exit, Biennale Art Encounters, Timisoara

- Kosmos Emma Kunz, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau

- Self-portrait with a Chandra. Hasior and New Art, Władysław Hasiora Gallery, Zakopane

- Manifest na rzecz lepszego życia, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw

- Atlas of Modernity, Museum of Art, Łódź

2020

- Penumbral Age, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- Theft and Destruction, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok

- Biennale Gherdeina, Ortisei, Tirol

- Bobsche Combo, Austriackie Forum Kultury, Warsaw

2019

- The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum, Katowice

- Volcano Extravaganza 2019, Stromboli

- Cosmological arrows, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

- Paint Also Known As Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- First World Problems, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice

- Mono No Aware, Trafo, Szczecin

- Celebration, Stary Browar, Poznań

- Celebration, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto

- Pangea United, Museum of Art, Łódź

- Freedoms, Cosmopolitan, Warsaw

- Nieskończoność, Służewiecki Dom Kultury, Warsaw

- First World Problems, Fundacja Gierowskiego, Warsaw

2018

- How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin

- Children of the Light, BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała

- Goddesses, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw

- The Wild Wisła We Love!, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk

- 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin

- Aquaria, DAAD gallery, Berlin

2017

- NOT FAIR, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw

- Hoolifemmes, Open’er Gdynia & Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- Art of the Treasure Hunt: The Grand Tour, Chianti

- The Beguiling Siren Is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- Na druhé straně (zrcadla),Krajské galerie výtvarného umění ve Zlíně, Zlín

- Relacja Warszawa - Zakopane, Park Morskie Oko, Królikarnia, Warsaw

- As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

- Flow / Powrót suma, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow

2016

- …[The Sparrows Tweet in Greek*], Hope School, Scaramagas, and 9th High School, Athens

- Łysogóra Experiment, The Zacheta Project Room, Warsaw

- Small Sculptural Forms, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw

- ECLIPSER, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Michael Part, pf Photography Gallery, Poznań

- Flow/Przepływ, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow

- Why Are We Afraid of Sunsets?, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdańsk

- Hati Hati Hat, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow

- The Portent of Light, Meet Factory, Praga

- Salon nowej fotografii, Raster Gallery, Warsaw

- 7 jedniodniowych wystaw, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow

2015

- All Men Become Sisters, Museum of Art, Łódź

- Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London

- I thought I’d never see you again, Painting History, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2014

- Video Night No. 1, Progress Gallery, Paris

- As You Can See, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

- New Painting from Poland and Japan, Okayama city museum, Okayama

- We, the Outsiders, e-flux, New York

- Wątłe muzy, The Tatra Museum, Zakopane

- PLUGGS, Karma International, Zurich

2013

- Czy artyści mogą nie spać?, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra

- Fith Force, Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw

- Oracle, the Wand, Berlin

- More than I than Dare to Think About, Marlborough Contemporary, London

- Instability of Image, Paradise Row, London

- Genealogie pracy, Arsena City Gallery, Poznań

- Cowboy Style, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2012

- Agnieszka Brzeżańska / Tobias Madison, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Karma International, Miami

- Self-ignition, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała

- Manifesta 9, Genk

- Agency of Unrealized Projects, DAAD galerie, Berlin

- Cosmic Laughter, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim

- Schach Matt , Märkisches Museum, Witten

- Biennial of Handmade Posters by Polish Artists, Piktogram, Warsaw

- I went to an exhibition in Warsaw, Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw

2011

- Hotavantgardehothot, Oslo 10, Münchenstein, Bazylea

- In Our Nature, Bel Etage, 800QM, Berlin

- The Joy of Pleasure, VW VeneKlasen Werner, Berlin

- Expanded Territory, KAI 10 – Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf

- Beautiful Weather, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

- One, Another, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

- From Berlin, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen

- Draußen ist feindlich, Bel Etage 2011, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

- Dirty Water, National Gallery, Sopot

- Starke Emergenz, Kunstraum, Innsbruck

2010

- Milk Drop Coronet. 30 Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Graz

- The Zero Budget Biennal, Klemm’s, Berlin

- Die kleine Improvisation – Polnische Kunst heute, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel

- Tu: Space Adventure, Willa Lentza, Szczecin

- Agnieszka Brzezanska, Miriam Cahn and Mária Bartuszová, Harris Lieberman, New York

- The Berlin Box, Kunsthalle Andratx / CCA, Mallorca

- Holy shit (yelled John upon noticing the delicate colours of the sunset), PSM Gallery, Berlin

- The Zero Budget Biennial, Rockeby, London

- The Zero Budget Biennial, Pianissimo, Milano

2009

- ZEIGEN. AN AUDIO TOUR THROUGH BERLIN, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

- Cave painting, Gresham´s Ghost, New York

- The Zero Budget Biennial, Schleicher + Lange and Carlos Cardenas Galerie, Paris

- Sorrow Conquers Happiness, NO LOCAL, Mysłowice

- Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin

- Full of Emptiness, Bel Etage, Berlin

- Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich

- Art in cinema, NO LOCAL in tour, Białystok, Bytom, Cieszyn, Lublin, Łódź, Koszalin, Toruń, Sanok, Ustka, Zielona Góra

2008

- ArtTLV OPEN SPACE LIVING, Tel Aviv

- Red Eye Effect, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

- Venus, Photomonth, Cracow

- Fais en sorte que je puisse te parler/mache, dass ich zu dir sprechen kann, Galerie Kamm, Berlin

- Forum Expanded, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin

2007

- Manual CC, CCA Kronika, Bytom

- Walk Real Slow, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles

2006

- Housewarming, Swiss Institute, New York

- Farewell to Icon, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles

- Solidarity, solitude, Broadway 1602, New York

- Keep passing the open windows, or happiness, Gisela Capitain, Cologne

- Private cinema, Willa Warsaw, Warsaw

- New documentalists, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

- All dressed up with Nowhere to go..., Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

- Take One, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2005

- The Pantagruel Syndrom - T1-Turin Triennial Trimusei, Torino, cat.

- EXILE. New York is a good hotel, Broadway 1602, New York

- Sicht Der Dinge, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, cat.

- Club Cube, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2004

- ZOO, ZOO Gallery, Warsaw, cat.

- Opening of Tadashi Kawamata's Project, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

- Under the white-and-red flag – New Art from Poland, Vilnius, Tallin, Moscow, cat.

- Tirol Transfer, Austriackie Forum Kultury, Warsaw, cat.

2003

- What Is Important?, Ars Baltica, Triennal of Photographic Art, Kiel, Meklenburg, Bergen, Vilnius, Riga, Tallin, Pori, Malmo, cat.

- Poesis, Kunsthalle Mucsarnok, Budapest, cat.

2002

- The Young Are Realists, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2001

- Painters' Competition, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, cat.

- Continuum 2001, Forum Fabricum, Łódź

2000

- Mukojima networks, Tokyo (www.mukojimanetworks.com)

Publications

2019
World National Park, solo exhibition catalogue, Królikarnia The National Museum, Warsaw

2016
Matrix-Sratrix, solo exhibition catalogue, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw

2015
Andrew Renton (ed.), This all occurs quickly, with ease, grace and joy, solo exhibition catalog, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2013
Genealogie pracy, exhibition catalogue, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań
OSLO 10 – HOTAVANGARDEHOTHOT 2011-2013, exhibition catalog, Oslo 10, Basel AND Publishing
Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Andrew Renton, Chris Sharp, I love you, be good, exhibition catalog, Marlborough Contemporary, London

2012
Adam Mazur (ed.), The Decisive Moment - New Phenomena in Polish Photography Since 2000, Karakter
Michał Suchora (ed.), Self-Ignition, exhibition catalogue, BWA Bielska, Bielsko-Biała
Magdalena Kardasz (ed.), Pokój z widokiem, Kordegarda, National Gallery of ArtZachęta, Warsaw
Cosmic Laughter No. 1, exhibition catalogue, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Sternberg Press

2011
Stephanie Roach, E E Cummings, Janet A. Kaplan, One, another, Flag Art Foundation, New York
Zdenek Felix (ed.), Expanded Territory, katalog wystawy, Kai 10, Raum für Kunst, Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf, Bielefeld
Veit Loers, Franziska Heubacher (eds), Starke Emergenz, exhibition catalogue, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Zak Branicka (ed.), Polish! Contemporary Art from Poland, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern Foundation, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Krakow, Ostfildern

2010
Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Andrew Renton, L’artiste, le modèle et la peinture, Berlin / New York
Die kleine Improvisation – Polnische Kunst heute, exhibition catalogue, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel

2009
Bob Nickas (ed.), Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press, London

2007
Nowe zjawiska w sztuce polskiej po 2000, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2006
The opposite of the opposite. And the opposite of that, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2005
Francesco Bonami; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, The Pantagruel Syndrome: T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, Milan

2004
Julia Harboe (ed.), Free Doom, Zurich

2003
What is Important?: 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, exhibition catalogue, Kiel

2001
Zawody malarskie, exhibition catalogue, Galeria Bielska, Bielsko-Biała

Selected press:

2017
WAF, One wiedzą, czym jest sztuka!, Mercedes-Benz Magazyn 3-2017, p. 102
Isabel Junqueira, Caca ao Tesouro, Vogue Brasil, September 2017, pp. 184-185
Valentina Lonati, Percorsi d’arte: Art of the Treasure Hunt, icon.panorama.it
Charlotte Jansen, Art of the Treasure Hunt serves up a perfect pairing of art and wine, wallpaper.com
Seconda edizione per la rassegna ART of the Treasure Hunt. Con grandi nomi dell’arte contemporanea, artribune.com

2016
Agnieszka Sural, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Flash Art, no. 309, p. 138
Marcin Krasny, Wygnana z Raju, Art & Business, no. 5/2016, pp. 50-55
Ewa Opałka, Jestem po stronie zwierząt, które pochylają się nad głupią ludzkością. Rozmowa z Agnieszka Brzeżańską, Magazyn Szum, 05.2016

2014
Barbara Piwowarska, Agnieszka Brzeżańska: Ma Terra, Art Review

2013
Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Michael Bracewell, frieze, Issue 158

2012
Is that you in there?, berlin-artparasites.com, March 27

2011
Nana Asfour, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Sound Waves, Light Waves, Dance Waves, Time Out New York, February 22, p. 53
Christopher Knight, Art Review: Agnieszka Brzezanska at Michael Benevento Gallery, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/02/art-review-agnieszka-brzezanska-at michael-benevento-gallery.html, February 17
Ivona Jelcic, Der Mensch als Sklave seines Mobiliars, Tiroler Tageszeitung, January 22, p. 12

2010
Ronald Jones and Liv Stoltz, Spirited Away, Frieze, Issue 135 November-December,p. 106
Provokative Persiflage, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 19
Nikolaus Cybinski, Blicke in die Nähe und ins All, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, May 28
Karen N. Gerig, Im Kosmos der Menschheit, Basler Zeitung, May 20
Astrid Mania, Anthropologische Beobachtungslounge, www.artnet.de/magazine/agnieszka brzezanska-daadgalerie/, April 14
Anna Pataczek, Die neue Seltsamkeit: Agnieszka Brzezanskas Ausflüge in die Esoterik, Monopol Online, March 31
Anna Krawczyk, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Flash Art, Issue March – April

2009
Quinn Latimer, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Frieze, Issue 127 November – December, p. 138
Asher Penn, Paging: Bob Nickas on Abstraction, Art in America Online, November 5

2007
Crystalline darkness, Piktogram, issue 08, p. 118– 125
Photography now, Portfolio review and cover, by Claudia Stein & Heide Hausler Agnieszka Brzezanska, Review by Sam Thorne, frieze, March, p. 200
Quinn Latimer, Introducing: Agnieszka Brzezanska, Modern Painters, Dec 2006 – Jan 2007, New York / London, p. 85 – 86

2005
Trzaskopismo / Snapzine, Warsaw